Selector Radio brings the UK’s best new music to 4 million listeners in over 30 countries around the world every week. This year we relaunched the show with a fresh look and brand new presenter, UK music legend and BBC 1Xtra’s Jamz Supernova. Audiences around the world have enjoyed new sessions and interviews. And in the last few weeks, stations in Azerbaijan and India have started broadcasting Selector.

IETM is a major European networking event – ideal for artists and producers who want to expand their careers internationally. Our IETM bursary programme gives underrepresented groups grants to attend international performing arts networking events across Europe. This year we’ve awarded 53 grants to help make sure the UK is presented in all of its diversity on the world stage. And we're currently offering bursaries for minority ethnic creative practitioners to join the next meeting in Norway.

We returned with the fifth edition of the world’s widest-reaching LGBTQ+ online film campaign in March 2019. Five films by emerging filmmakers from across the world were selected from the BFI Flare Festival programme and made available online for 11 days in recognition of the fact that Love is a Human Right. To date they’ve been watched by over 13 million people in more than 200 countries. #FiveFilms4Freedom returns in 2020 from 18-29 March. In other news, three new short films have been commissioned for the #MOREFilms4Freedom programme.

The Creative Enterprise Programme is a practical, capacity-building programme that supports creative entrepreneurs around the world and encourages sustainable and resilient livelihoods. In 2019 we proudly supported over 700 creative and cultural entrepreneurs by delivering 30 workshops in 12 countries; Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Turkey, Uganda and Ukraine.